Partners - MPQ

Description: The Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching/Munich, Germany, carries out
research on the interaction of light with matter and the development of new laser systems and applications. It
has performed world-leading research over 25 years and got even more famous just recently by the Nobel
Prize of T.W. Hänsch. The main research areas at the MPQ are: precision spectroscopy applied to hydrogen
atom and single trapped ions; quantum information; quantum physics of laser cooled ultra-cold atoms and
molecules; interaction of radiation with single atoms in cavities; attosecond physics; interaction of ultra intense laser pulses with matter. The mission of LAP, the Laboratory of Attosecond and High-Field Physics
of Ferenc Krausz, is to develop the basic tools and techniques for experimental attosecond physics. The
ultimate goal of its research is to explore the electronic structure of matter with atomic-scale resolution in
space (<1 angstrom) and time (<<1 femtosecond) and demonstrate ways of controlling its changes on an
attosecond time scale.

Excellence: Ultra-fast lasers and nonlinear interactions, attosecond and high-field physics.

Main tasks: participant in networking activities

Previous experience: Member in OTTER and FOSCIL JRAs in LASERLAB EUROPE (FP6).

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Address:
Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
D-85748 Garching
Germany

Phone +49 (0) 89/3 29 05-0

www.mpq.mpg.de